Viktor Galushkin

Colonel Viktor Galushkin (died August 1991) was a Soviet KGB officer who led a conspiracy to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev to restore the power of the Communist Party. Galushkin had several of his rivals assassinated in 1983, who happened to be the parents of Maksim Rukov, who went on to become a KGB officer himself. By the summer of 1991, with the reforms of Gorbachev causing Soviet power to wane, Colonel Galushkin had become involved in the "New Birth" conspiracy that sought to overthrow Gorbachev and replace him, along with fellow officers Radomir Savinkov, Grigori Agabekov, a turncoat CIA spy, and several others. However, the corrupt and power hungry Colonel Vladimir Kuznetsov was in their way, so in order to get rid of him, Galushkin and his criminal contacts started up a snuff movie and drug smuggling ring to get Kuznetsov involved, then use that as the excuse to remove him. Kuznetsov fell for the bait and Captain Rukov, who had been transferred to the KGB, was assigned by Galushkin to investigate. However, the young officer eventually figured out that Kuznetsov was unimportant and caught to the conspiracy, which led one of its members to panic. That member then tried to defect and murdered Galushkin in the process.